git: timezone and timestamp format

Question

From git I can get the timestamp:

\"2011-10-04 12:58:36 -0600\"

but is there any way to show it as:

\"2011-10-04 06:58:36\"         


        

Answer 1

Unfortunately, using git log --date=local as explained in previous answers changes the output format.

To keep the format as asked (YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm) I had to use:

git log --date=iso-local

But that only works on git 2.7 or above.

Answer 2

To get the format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:hh), you can use:

git log --date=format:%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M

Works beautifully with Git Standup too: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup